Posts Tagged ‘ awesome ’

15 Addictive Online Games: IV

Nov 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured

In true Hollywood Movie Sequel fashion I’ve decided to drop the previous convention of naming these flash game lists and start using Roman Numerals instead. I’m really not posting these to curry favour from stumblers (fellow stumblers, virtual high 5 *slap*), more, when I’m travelling I like to have a central location for flash game [...]



Damien Walters Parkour Skills

Jun 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: Tech and the Net

Ever since I heard about Parkour a few years back I’ve found it excellent to watch. Since its boom in popularity it’s shown up in a number of movies (Casino Royale, District 13… etc). On the internet though most of the videos that will pop up will be of people failing at it or biting [...]



Little pleasures #7: The Dyson Airblade

May 15th, 2009 | By | Category: Thought

Being an engineer by education I guess I tend to see the form and function of objects first, and nothing pleases me more than an invention that effectively accomplishes both. An invention that innovates and makes something better while retaining a form that is pleasing to the human eye.

At a recent expo, unrelated to engineering, I needed to use the facilities and found they had removed the old hot air hand driers and drag down towel dispensers with a Dyson Airblade. The name sounds pretentious and overly markety (Bill Hicks would have a field day), but it’s function more than makes up for this.



Wingsuit base jumping

Jan 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Tech and the Net

You know, I’ve known about base jumping for years, but I’d always thought the aim was to get away from the face of the building/cliff asap.